In this month’s IP Literature Watch we include a paper exploring how multimarket contact (MMC) explains competitors’ intellectual property (IP) infringement-litigation dynamics; a study elucidating whether arbitration offers advantages compared to the patent litigation system which is currently existing in Germany; a paper undertaking a law-and-economics analysis of the remedy of destruction of products that infringe intellectual property (IP) rights; a study using a signaling game to evaluate the incentives that affect an inventor’s decision whether to work in a firm’s lab or establish a start-up; an article focusing on analyzing and comparing trade secret laws in developing and developed countries, specifically India and Germany; a chapter providing a perspective on access to regulation and the legitimacy of private rulemaking by studying the issue of public access to copyrighted standards that have become a part of law; and a paper offering a primer on the basic economics of film finance and standard practices in the US movie industry.
CRA experts win prestigious 2026 Antitrust Writing Awards
The awards recognize outstanding scholarship and advocacy in antitrust law and economics. Christian Michel, a principal in the Antitrust & Competition...

